All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.